Venues guide - London 2012 Olympics
Venues guide - London 2012 Olympics
Venues guide - London 2012 Olympics
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Basketball Arena<br />
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Olympic sports<br />
Basketball (early rounds),<br />
Handball (fi nals)<br />
Paralympic Games<br />
Wheelchair Basketball,<br />
Wheelchair Rugby<br />
After the Games<br />
Dismantled with elements<br />
reused elsewhere<br />
Capacity<br />
12,000 (<strong>Olympics</strong>)<br />
10,000 (Paralympics)<br />
Construction<br />
October 2009 – July 2011<br />
Venue facts<br />
The Arena is one of the<br />
largest temporary venues<br />
ever built for any Olympic<br />
and Paralympic Games.<br />
The 1,000-tonne steel<br />
frame is covered in 20,000<br />
square metres of recyclable<br />
PVC fabric.<br />
It will be one of the most<br />
heavily-used venues within<br />
the Olympic Park, with<br />
competition events taking<br />
place almost every day.<br />
To comfortably accommodate<br />
the basketball players, all<br />
the venue’s doorways are an<br />
above average 2.4m high.<br />
It is 35m tall – the same<br />
height as a 10-storey building.<br />
It was one of the quickest<br />
Olympic Park venues to<br />
be constructed, with its<br />
giant frame erected in less<br />
than three months during<br />
spring 2010.<br />
The seating of the arena<br />
is black and orange to<br />
represent the colours of<br />
a basketball.<br />
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